The dark side of incremental learning: A model of cumulative semantic interference during lexical access in speech production

Cognition

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 227-252

  Oppenheim, Gary M ^a   Dell, Gary S ^a   Schwartz, Myrna F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MOSS REHABILITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive lexical selection; Cumulative semantic interference; Incremental learning; Lexical access; Neural network model; Speech production

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LEARNING ALGORITHM; LEARNING STYLE; NETWORK LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CATS; CUES; DOGS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 73449094150     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.09.007     Document Type: Article

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